Civitas Leonina
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
The Civitas Leonina or Leonine City is a portion of the city of Rome on the left bank of the river Tiber around which Pope Leo IV commissioned the construction of the Leonine Wall in the ninth century AD. This followed the Saracen sack of Rome in AD 846.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/229277207
41.90346846, 12.4495142421
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Leonine Wall (AD 640 - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Civitas Leonina (Latin, AD 640 - AD 1453)
- Civitas Leonina connection Roma (unspecified date range)
- Porta Santo Spirito located at Civitas Leonina (unspecified date range)
urban area, wall (of a city), city wall, settlement
- See Further:
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- Dyer, T. H. 1865. A History of the City of Rome: its structures and monuments; from its foundation to the end of the middle ages. p. 371
- Krautheimer, R. 1983. Three Christian capitals: topography and politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Wikipedia (English) Borgo (rione of Rome)
- Wikipedia (English) Leonine City
- Wikipedia (Italian) Mura leonine
- See Also:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, 'Civitas Leonina: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/229277207> [accessed: 30 December 2024]
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